Court orders FIR against Bedi, rejects her CWG probe plea too

It seems that former IPS officer and a key member of Team Anna, Kiran Bedi, has landed into double trouble; where a Delhi court, on Saturday, ordered lodging of an FIR against her for allegedly misappropriating funds meant for her NGOs, the court also rejected her complaint seeking further probe into Commonwealth Games-related graft cases.

The court refused to entertain a complaint filed by Bedi and others including yoga guru Ramdev and Arvind Kejriwal, another key Team Anna member, for a further probe in CWG graft cases.

The same judge also ordered registration of an FIR against her in the afternoon after taking note of a complaint of a Delhi-based lawyer Devinder Singh Chauhan who alleged she "looted" various paramilitary forces and police organisations in the name of imparting free computer training under her trust's banner.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal ordered the crime branch of Delhi police to register an FIR against Bedi on the complaint of Chauhan.

"The application is disposed off with the direction to the DCP crime branch to register an FIR," the ACMM said, adding "the complainant will submit all related documents and annexures (in support of his allegations) duly signed and attested within 24 hours."

The court, while ordering registration of the FIR, did not heed to contentions of Delhi police that the complainant lawyer had no ground and if there was any misappropriation of funds, the donors, who gave money to Bedi's NGOs India Vision Foundation and Navjyoti Foundation, should have moved the complaint.

Chauhan, in his complaint, alleged Bedi received donations of more than Rs 50 lakh from Microsoft for imparting free computer training to kids and families of personnel of BSF, CISF, ITBP, CRPF and other state police organisations under the banner of her trust 'India Vision Foundation'.

"Kiran Bedi got permission of four community centres by misleading undertaking that she will not charge any fee from students out of these courses but contrary to the undertaking, she is charging Rs 15,000 per student and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), despite receiving various complaints, is not acting against Bedi," he said.

The complainant alleged Bedi misused the names of various government organisations, including banks, for showing them as donors to get other donations. It was also alleged that Bedi's NGOs received Rs 6,000 per month for each centre from Vedanta Foundation for giving facilities such as land and electricity.

However, such facilities were being provided by police organisations, the complaint said.

"Neither Kiran Bedi nor any of her associates disclosed this fact to Vedanta that they are illegally charging Rs 6,000 for each centre for the expenses rent of the building and charges of electricity. In order to cheat Vedanta, Bedi entered into a 'donation agreement' for illegally sharing of the amount received from the centres of BSF, CISF, UP Police and others," he alleged.